Japanese rice wine

It is a premium sake in Japan, but readily available in Niigata Prefecture. This time it is the original sake stored in the snow. The alcohol content is as high as 18.5%.

I bought my first bottle this season at Hachikura in Nagamori, where Hakkai Brewery is located. It has a clean alcoholic aroma and taste that is typical of junmai sake.

It is said to be a limited edition sake for registered stores. Purchased at Kanazawa-ya in Shiozawa. The color is almost transparent, the aroma is mild and not bad, and the taste is tangy and seemingly fizzy.

Purchased at Fressey's Minami-Ohashi store. They said it was limited to 60 bottles, but there were 50 bottles on the shelf. The color is slightly tinted and the aroma is a pleasant slight ginjo.

This time, it is a special junmai that has been aged for two years at the koji shop of Hachikaisan Honten. The aroma is subdued, but has a nice aroma of soft yeast. The color is colored by two years of aging

This May, the "Tokujun" nama-zume is released every year as a summer sake. Now, I had to decide whether to buy this year's freshly brewed or the one-year aged one on the line!

The long-established Niigata brewery, whose style has become old-fashioned and declining, has recently introduced Blue Bottle's Kawafui and Green Bottle's Kawafui to meet modern taste preferences.

What a great deal, a Junmai Ginjo-shu for 700 yen including tax. Purchased at the Apita Kameda store in Niigata Prefecture. The rice polishing ratio is an ambitious 58%, and this sake is from Fukui Prefecture. Detailed specs

Purchased at Muikamachi Aeon. It is a sake from the Tamagawa Sake Brewery in the neighboring city of Uonuma, but I had never seen the label before. When I looked at the distributor, it was Takano Sohonten K.K. of Nagano Prefecture.

Hakkai Brewery's summer sake is now ready. It is the season of "Summer Jun" again this year. Delivered right from our directly-managed stores. This year's rice is hidari and hard